Quick Look: Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery: Episode 01

yay

The moment I saw the name, I knew it was a GBeast Quick Look.

From that deck I hope this is another QL just full of music references.

I love you guys!

Such a thoroughly pleasant game, I love the characters and aesthetic.

The parents are dressed like Alan and Ellie from Jurassic Park!

This is the first time I've heard that there even is a Part 2. Will probably pick it up on the Vita when it is released in Europe.

Holy crap I love how this game looks!

That fucking deck.

@vinny, I will always love your mid 90s musical references.

I love everything about how this game looks.

@vinny the word you were looking for that describes someone with different coloured irises is "heterochromia" or "heterochromia iridum"

I've played every Professor Layton game, and got so tired of the formula by the end that I couldn't even finish the last one. So I'm not so sure a game with different coat of paint but seemingly the same game-play could make me want to play it. Still the art style looks amazing, and it seems fun enough for people who still enjoy that style of game.

and he is right, it is cool.

Just like Jeff, Alex still thinks it's the year 2000.

The totem pole is V-Bomb!?!?!

I love the look of this game, so happy you did a QL, but as soon as you got to that second puzzle, I had to turn it off.

Watching someone else try to solve a puzzle, I just can't. It's not you, it's me.

Damn, not even a minute in and Alex drops a hot Salute Your Shorts reference.

Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts.

And when we think about you it makes me wanna fart!

23:20

That dude looks EXACTLY like the teacher guy from The Incredibles:

The eyes are all open mouths with blue and green teeth.

What other Professor Layton-like game is Vinny talking about at 8.20?

Vinny: "Puzzle Quest or Puzzle... What was the one? With Like euh... Where you find the bubblegum?"

@kewlsnake: Puzzle Agent

My name is Jacob Jones. Weird

I totally played that game for a bit and I can't remember the name for the life of me. It was kind of cool but something turned me off IIRC. Wasn't it supposed to be episodic too? I don't remember hearing about any sequels...

I didn't know episode 2 was out. I'll have to pick it up since this first one was great.

Puzzle agent perhaps? From telltale.

Uhhh the parents are dressed exactly like Sam Neil and Laura Dern in Jurassic Park. That's rad.

Also so this is Layton but without the boring-ass characters and completely dry, interminable dialogue? That's what I've been waiting for!

I went to Whale Camp. My parents found it on the internet and sent me there alone.

IT WAS DOPE AS FUCK

@kewlsnake: Puzzle Agent!

This seems neat.

This is charming as fuck!

Cute.

This is a neat series, I have both episodes on my iPad.

My only complaint about the second episode is that I finished it very very quickly and it did not actually do anything to further the story that episode 1 sets out. You literally get sidetracked on your way to get where you need to be to continue episode 1's storyline, solve a few things, aaaaaaand then it ends.

Still, for a couple of bucks per episode, you could do worse.

This game's art style is absolutely fantastic.

This is super adorable

I really adore the way this game looks and just the whole concept of it seems really great. I'll probably pick this up.

I also got a kick out of how stoked Vinny was for simply guiding the luggage into neat spaces in the trunk. =D

Every time that kid said "Mr. Hans" it made me think of Mr. Hands.

That, and the thumbnail had me immediately suspect the presence of a wild Vinny.

Clever video text.

Misread this as Jacoby Jones.

I absolutely love the VO for Mr. Flommerly, haha.

I like that Alex went straight to Salute your shorts for a camp reference.

OMG, Jeff is kind of like the Donkeylips of Giant Bomb.

I really don't like the voice acting for the kid. He sounds like a shitty teenager, not a little kid.

EDIT: Eh, actually, I was kind of over it by the time the Quick Look finished. Hope you enjoyed this real-time look into my opinions on video game voice acting. Game looks cool!

I am vexed by Alex's use of the word "vex" this week. Is there a prize for solving the word of the week riddle?

Keep up the good work boys of GBeast!

Really love PUZZLE AGENT 1 and 2. looked for similiar game for long time

Played this last year when it came out on Vita, so this is a weird late quick look to see up on the site.

This is exactly the game I need right now. Recently finished Puzzle Agent 2, and wanted more, and I love Psychonauts and Double Fine.

Also it looks like a good game

Professor Layton games tend to have a massive number of puzzles which all sort of blue together after a while. Although I haven't played this game, it seems from the Quick Look like it probably has fewer, but possibly harder, puzzles between story bits so the charm probably won't wear thin by the end the way it tends to in Layton games.

I saw the parent and thought "why do they look so familiar?" ...I think I figured it out.

This looks great. I'll probably get it.

You aren't sending me to the cooler!